Sunday, 23 January 2011

Talk about "from the sublime to the ridiculous" - I think I've gone the other way!

After the somewhat "odd" previous post, here's something a little more restrained :)

This was another serendipity moment. I created these backgrounds sometime last year at one of the journal workshops with either Sarah or Sue, and they've been sitting in my art journal ever since. I was flicking through looking for inspiration, whenthis song* came on and I realised that the stencil reminded me of a wheat/barley stalk.

The backgrounds came about by accident. We'd been using wet-wipes to move paint around on a gesso'd page. I'd put my book down on top of a couple of them and when I picked it up I liked the effect, so grabbed all the ink stained wet wipes (that weren't a muddy grey/brown) and inked the page.

There's another double page spread made with the same effect, but it's so good that I'll probably never ever do anything with it (and it might upset some of the ladies at the Cubby Hole if I did).

*Bother! I'm not allowed to embed the song, so you'll need to follow the link to Youtube.

Sunday, 16 January 2011

This is my entry for this week's Play Date Cafe challenge, and to be honest I've struggled to put something together. Eventually this afternoon I managed to find some papers that matched the challenge palette, picked a stamp at random and went from there.I'm still not sure about the finished result, but I know that if I don't leave it alone I'll make it worse, not better.

Stamps used are:Puccini's Muse by Stampington,Ginkgo by InkadinkadooKanji poem by Hero Arts.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

I'm back, and with a nice new shiny PC :) To all those who have been kind enough to comment recently, I now have access to my emails again, so I'll respond soon. In the meantime, here is another music inspired journal page.

The words from are taken from "Hymn to Her" by Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders.

The embedded video is a solo live version. If you want to hear the original version try this.

Large stamp is from "Selene" from Third Coast. I still haven't identified the silhouette one.